Renewed agreement will help cultivate the next generation of tech talent

U of A president Bill Flanagan (centre) and Infosys executive vice-president Tan Moorthy sign an agreement extending the collaboration between the two partners at an event Sept. 26 in Calgary. Jobs, Economy and Innovation Minister Tanya Fir (second right) and Premier Jason Kenney (right) were among those in attendance. (Photo: Michael Brown)

Reading Time: 3 minutes University of Alberta and Infosys will continue to collaborate on research projects in energy, machine learning and climate change

Researchers engineering new drug to beat blood cancers

Hasan Uludag holds a sample of leukemia cells treated with experimental drugs his team is testing that fight blood cancers by targeting gene defects in blood cells. (Photo: Geoff McMaster)

Reading Time: 3 minutes RNA technology used to target gene defects in blood cells that lead to diseases like leukemia